Nova Scotia News

HALIFAX — Atlantic Canada’s largest city is examining a proposal that would add safety officers to its buses and ferries to counter a growing trend of violence in the transit system.

HALIFAX — Standing in a homeless encampment on the outskirts of Halifax, Aaron Haynes says food, advice and supplies from volunteers warm his spirits — even as winter's bitter cold draws closer by the day.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia's Public Works Minister Kim Masland says the federal government must maintain full ferry service between Digby, N.S., and Saint John, N.B., next year because it is crucial to the region.

HALIFAX — Nova Scotia’s premier says his government won’t provide financial help for customers out of pocket after a company they prepaid for furnace oil filed for bankruptcy last week.

HALIFAX — The Transportation Safety Board once again linked lax regulation of vessel stability to fishing deaths off Nova Scotia in a report released Wednesday.

HALIFAX — Cancer patients in Nova Scotia will soon be given access to a unique type of radiotherapy that health officials believe will transform the level of care of the disease in the province.

Halifax Regional Municipality says it is no longer advising all homeless people living in tents in a downtown military parade square to leave. Instead, the municipality says it will enforce a limit of eight tents in the Grand Parade.

HALIFAX — About a month after Halifax designated a downtown square as a tent site for people experiencing homelessness, the city advised those living there to move out because the area will become dangerous when snow-clearing operations begin.

HALIFAX — The Nova Scotia government announced on Tuesday plans to build housing on four community college campuses as the province grapples with a crisis that has left students struggling to find apartments.

HALIFAX — Marking Transgender Day of Remembrance is especially important this year amid rising incidents of violence and hatred, the founder of a Nova Scotia-based advocacy group said Monday.